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So, Dumb Donnie, you want the EU to fight back? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-03
Now, with Washington threatening to punish the EU further, not only for its existing tariffs but also for what it sees as nontariff barriers such as its tech regulations, Brussels is preparing to up the ante.
In targeting U.S. services, Brussels could be thinking of bulge-bracket banks like J.P. Morgan or Bank of America, or tech players like Elon Musk’s social network X, search giant Google, or Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. “We are certainly not excluding a bigger response, a better response and an even more creative response through services, through [intellectual property rights],” a senior European Union official told reporters in mid-March.
Your blatant lies about tariffs yesterday and dodgy math deserve a response.
You seem to have added in costs to meet European Standards [that apply to all] and VAT, a universal sales tax that funds the EU.
If you add the two trade deficits together, we are pretty much even; in fact, the US is ahead.
Then again
Stupidity is your main selling point.
Regressive taxes.
How about increasing costs for the TechBros
A Morning Muse
~A
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